Word: passes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...because the purpose of a residential tutorial staff is to contribute to undergraduate student life, the value of a tutor should be judged accordingly. I cannot judge my own contribution to the House, but I believe all of the fellow tutors I know would pass this test with flying colors...
...hooking penalty against UNH junior defenseman Kerry Maher with 10:38 left in regulation had given Harvard the man-advantage its first opportunity of the final period. Ruggiero took a pass from Mleczko and fired a slapshot from center point. Roberts made the initial stop, but the force of Ruggiero's slapper sent the puck bounding into the slot, where Francisco sent it top-shelf past Roberts for the 4-3 lead...
Then Clinton had to pass the word to Russian President Boris Yeltsin, who went ballistic on the phone for 45 minutes--putting Clinton in a testy mood for most of the day. Yeltsin later lashed out at the U.S. and talked vaguely of radical measures he had considered and rejected--presumably sending arms and volunteers to Serbia. "On the moral level, we are above America," Yeltsin said. Moscow's desperation for influence and anger at the U.S. are partly the result of humiliation, reflecting Russia's plunge from superpower to pauper in just 10 years. Says former President and friend...
...with party officials to get sent back to the city. Why, he will put in a word to them. Dazzled by the glare of his promise in this long night of isolation, Xiu Xiu surrenders to him. And then to rougher strangers, all in the hope of getting a pass home. Without money or connections, she asks, "What's a girl to do?" The cute girl is a broken woman now, a soldier's trophy. All along, she has been coquettishly courting disaster--a prom date with death. Now that affair will be consummated...
...PASS THE SALT Researchers reported last week that they may have found a gene that makes some African Americans more likely to suffer high blood pressure when they consume salt. The gene in question controls how much the blood vessels widen, which lowers blood pressure, or narrow, which raises blood pressure. As little as half a teaspoon of table salt can raise blood pressure levels five points (mm Hg) in those who have the gene...